re: Massive divide in the American public. I don't see anyway of bringing it together again.

This.

If another 9/11 type of event happened today, is our country even capable of coming together like it did in the months after that attack?

I don’t think so…which is scary and sad as hell.

Thanks Obama

Balkanization is the answer

The divide was bigger in the 1970’s and it got fixed. For those who don’t remember…

- A President assassinated
- A presidential contender assassinated
- MLK assassinated
- A shooter at Kent State
- A Cold War with the USSR with nuclear holocaust in the cards
- Plane hijackings
- Vietnam War protests roiling the universities

The left used all of this to push for socialism and pushed too far. Amidst stagflation and all of the above, Ronald Reagan rose to the top. He united the country, winning a 60% majority in his 1984 race, along with 49 states.

The pendulum is swinging back.

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The south already tried that.

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You dipshits always resort to the same retarded talking points.

There will be a balkanization. It will be peaceful, you will be stuck with the poors and the soy boys. The current economic track make it impossible to survive as a sole entity.

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You live in an urban bubble

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You’re telling me in most places, people don’t get along with each other? New Orleans is a harmonious utopia?

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where group think is virtually the same which is almost exclusively liberal.

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At my son’s flag football game last night, the mom o sat next to said “they’re so loud and always complaining about being treated differently” when I expressed surprise that there was a black team in the league that had all black kids on it and somehow also wore black uniforms. I brought it up but mostly to be like how the heck did the league commissioner think it was ok for the black kids to have to wear black jerseys? It reminded me of the power rangers when the black guy was the black ranger and the Asian girl was the yellow ranger. When the mom I was talking to made into a bitch about black people conversation , I happily and easily changed the subject.

Then she brought up outrage over trans legislation and bathrooms and I changed the subject again. It was easy! The lady’s kid is a great athlete and is a friend of my kid and she’s a nice enough person to chat with. I don’t need to know her feelings on every political issue to sit next to her at a football game and have a nice time. I wouldn’t say there is a divide between us just because I don’t agree with her ideas about black people and I can recognize that the emphasis on trans stuff is a big distraction so our legislators can keep ducking us over.

If the gap becomes to large, usually the way it’s bridged is with the bodies of one side or the other

St George is the natural result of this divide.

Competent people will start to separate themselves from the urban dysfunction. Its normal and natural.

That was the '60s, not the ' 70s.